5517 The Truth About Health Care! Freedomain Call In

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Stefan passionately discusses the opioid crisis, shedding light on its history and impact while emphasizing the importance of physical health and exercise in preventing health issues. The conversation delves into the correlation between age and weight, the economic challenges of living the American dream, and the significance of societal accountability. Stefan and the guest further explore incentivizing preventive care in healthcare to reduce costs and improve overall well-being, advocating for a shift towards rewarding healthy practices and emphasizing prevention. The episode concludes with reflections on the influence of health insurance, societal changes, and the importance of engaging with audiences to foster growth and meaningful discussions.

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0:00.0	All right, yeah, I just wanted to drop by say hi, hope you all doing well, and if you have things on your mind, I am more than thrilled above to hear all about them, and of course I've read some interesting stuff today which I'm happy to share with you but I turn this over if you you know you might be muted you might want to unmute but I'm all ears if you have something you want to talk about.
0:26.0	Well I found some interesting articles today that I wanted to talk about.
0:36.8	The opioid crisis. interesting articles today that I wanted to talk about. The opiate crisis, boy, did you know, did you know, I didn't know this at all? Did you know that one out of ten Americans has a family member who died from the opioid like died from opioid
0:47.6	poison in that wild 1 out of 10 Americans has a family member who's died from opiates and it was an article I was reading
0:56.3	about a guy who was told as a doctor he said he was told oh you know it's not that
1:00.2	addictive opio it's not that addictive and he's like, well, what about the Civil War veterans?
1:07.7	Which is something I didn't know about.
1:10.0	I mean, it's, it kind of makes sense in hindsight, of course, right? It kind of makes sense in hindsight of course right it kind of makes sense in
1:13.6	hindsight but this is from uh... zero hedge and as he says when this the US
1:19.1	civil war ended in eighteen sixty five both sides demobilized a very horde of chronically ill and wounded.
1:24.7	Some soldiers had contracted tuberculosis or a lingering pneumonia
1:28.3	in the days before antibiotics.
1:29.7	others had suffered field amputations with handheld sores. But whether the question was chronic coughing
1:35.2	or terrible pain, the answer was morphine, the newly invented hypodermic needle allowed
1:40.5	for fast-acting injections. Veterans everywhere got hooked to the point where addiction was called the
1:45.8	soldiers disease.
1:47.9	Soon Morfin moved beyond the battlefield and was in use for everything from menstrual
1:51.8	cramps to teething.
1:54.0	And did you know that heroin was actually a trade name?
1:58.0	It's not actually the name of the substance.
2:00.0	When heroin arrived, it was welcomed as an improvement because things were so bare.
2:05.0	Chemists had discovered it decades earlier, but in 1898 the pharmaceutical company
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